# Image fade-in help and tweened mask tricks

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/image-fade-in-help-and-tweened-mask-tricks/89613
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**Created:** [May 10, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/image-fade-in-help-and-tweened-mask-tricks/89613 "2005-05-10T03:13:39Z")
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### Author: ![samsoner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@samsoner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/samsoner)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/image-fade-in-help-and-tweened-mask-tricks/89613/1 "2005-05-10T03:13:39Z")

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Hi,  
I just saw something incredibly cool on the product page for [Adobe.com](http://Adobe.com), under the title “Digital Imaging”.

[http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/main.html](http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/main.html)

How do you fade in an image like that? When I fade an image in, the whole image fades in together solidly, without the “blurred” effect. Does anyone know how to create that blurred fade-in effect in Flash?

Also, I’ve seen this alot on TV commercials. One visual image is replaced by another image that “mask” tweens horizontally over the original. I tried this in Flash and it is HARD to do. The only alternative I could do is to save the first image as a Graphic, and then motion tween off the screen to the right. Immediately as the first Graphic slides horizontally to the right, the user can see the second Graphic on a motion tween that slides horizontally on to the stage, in the same spot where Graphic one used to be.

Hopefully with this mask tween I won’t have to do any motion tween on graphics at all.

Thanks